Koppel Asks for More Media Objectivity
Former Nightline anchor, Ted Koppel was on CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday and when the subject of journalism came up, the obviously liberal-biased former ABC anchor said, "I think the journalism requires, and our times require, a little more serious objectivity." He added, "And I think there has to be a willingness on the part of the public to accept that journalism is trying to do an honest job of giving them an objective accounting of what's going on in the world and an objective appraisal of what's really important in the world."
Whatever. It's funny for a guy who made public, on-the-air comments like these expects to be seen as "objective":
“To call something an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’ doesn’t alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it....You know, it’s almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.”— in a commentary for the BBC’s World News America, May 11, 2009.
"It’s a sign of the times: Thirty-five years ago, he [George W. Bush] joined the Texas Air National Guard to stay out of Vietnam. And now, he’s going to Vietnam to stay out of Washington."— joking about the President’s trip to an economic summit in Vietnam, on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, November 15, 2006.
“There were some fairly contentious issues and he was a fairly controversial President – we’ve more or less overlooked much of that over the past week. But I suspect as his friends and supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore, that some of that controversy and some of the debate will come back.”Peter Jennings: “No doubt about it.”– Exchange during ABC’s live coverage of Reagan funeral events about 7:45pm EDT on June 11, 2004.
“When you say he’s ‘a good and decent man,’ I don’t know him that well personally myself, I have no way of judging one way or the other. But I must tell you I often listen to him when I’m driving into work, and what I hear on the radio is frequently – I don’t want to say hateful, that’s going a little too far – but he says and does things on the radio that are so disparaging of homosexuals, African-Americans, the homeless. As I say, I think it’s clearly part of the act, but it’s not gentlemanly, it’s not kind.”–Nightline Oct. 2 2003, rejecting talk show host G. Gordon Liddy’s description of Limbaugh.
"At the same time, he will have to find a way to disassociate himself from the President’s extremely low personal approval ratings. It shouldn’t be that difficult. Al Gore has been perhaps the most active Vice President in American history, and there’s not a hint of scandal associated with Gore’s personal behavior. So much for logic."-previewing Al Gore’s convention address, August 14, 2000.
"Let us not for a moment be confused into believing that this is only a conservative Republican thing, this business of some people feeling threatened by smart, assertive, professional women....Women who speak their minds in public are still swimming upstream in this country."--August 18, 1992.
So if there's no media bias (if he meant FOX, surely he would have said so by name) then why would a stalwart of the left-wing media say that there needs to be "a little more serious objectivity?" He also said that the public has to more or less suspend their disbelief to believe that the media is "trying to do an honest job of objective accounting of what's going on in the world." So what does that tell you?
Whatever. It's funny for a guy who made public, on-the-air comments like these expects to be seen as "objective":
“To call something an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’ doesn’t alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it....You know, it’s almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.”— in a commentary for the BBC’s World News America, May 11, 2009.
"It’s a sign of the times: Thirty-five years ago, he [George W. Bush] joined the Texas Air National Guard to stay out of Vietnam. And now, he’s going to Vietnam to stay out of Washington."— joking about the President’s trip to an economic summit in Vietnam, on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, November 15, 2006.
“There were some fairly contentious issues and he was a fairly controversial President – we’ve more or less overlooked much of that over the past week. But I suspect as his friends and supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore, that some of that controversy and some of the debate will come back.”Peter Jennings: “No doubt about it.”– Exchange during ABC’s live coverage of Reagan funeral events about 7:45pm EDT on June 11, 2004.
“When you say he’s ‘a good and decent man,’ I don’t know him that well personally myself, I have no way of judging one way or the other. But I must tell you I often listen to him when I’m driving into work, and what I hear on the radio is frequently – I don’t want to say hateful, that’s going a little too far – but he says and does things on the radio that are so disparaging of homosexuals, African-Americans, the homeless. As I say, I think it’s clearly part of the act, but it’s not gentlemanly, it’s not kind.”–Nightline Oct. 2 2003, rejecting talk show host G. Gordon Liddy’s description of Limbaugh.
"At the same time, he will have to find a way to disassociate himself from the President’s extremely low personal approval ratings. It shouldn’t be that difficult. Al Gore has been perhaps the most active Vice President in American history, and there’s not a hint of scandal associated with Gore’s personal behavior. So much for logic."-previewing Al Gore’s convention address, August 14, 2000.
"Let us not for a moment be confused into believing that this is only a conservative Republican thing, this business of some people feeling threatened by smart, assertive, professional women....Women who speak their minds in public are still swimming upstream in this country."--August 18, 1992.
So if there's no media bias (if he meant FOX, surely he would have said so by name) then why would a stalwart of the left-wing media say that there needs to be "a little more serious objectivity?" He also said that the public has to more or less suspend their disbelief to believe that the media is "trying to do an honest job of objective accounting of what's going on in the world." So what does that tell you?
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